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ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY
[Photograph album]. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine, Public Information Office, March 1946. Oblong 8° (175 x 240mm). 20 (of 23) original photographs (ea. 114 x 173mm) showing members of the Committee, important witnesses, landscapes and images of Arabs and Jewish settlements. (First two leaves detached, lacking three photographs with light removal marks.) Original publishers blue cloth with gilt title on upper cover (extremities faintly rubbed).
SCARCE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM COMMEMORATING THE TOURS OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY. The assassination of Lord Moyne, British minister of state in the Middle East, in Cairo in 1944 by Lehi (Stern Gang), effectively meant the abandonment of Churchill's plans for partition, and the 1939 White Paper - detested by the Jews with its restrictions on immigration - remained in force. Although the British Labour party had promised before its election to allow mass Jewish migration into Palestine, once in office in 1945 they prevaricated while they tried to create a new policy for Palestine. The Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, actively tried to get the Americans on board, and established the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry (AAC). It was composed of 6 American and 6 British members, and toured widely to gauge the views of many different parties. The itinerary included: hearing official government policies in Washington, D.C., and London; Vienna, where they visited a Displaced Persons camp and interviewed Holocaust survivors; Cairo, where they heard Arab sentiments and interviewed the Grand Mufti (pictured in this album); 3 weeks in Palestine, with visits to Jewish and Arab areas, and testimonial hearings with Jewish, Arab, and British officials; finally retiring to Lausanne to debate and draft their findings. The images in the present lot are high quality, and Richard Crossman, Chaim Weizmann and Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, are all easily identifiable.
[Photograph album]. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine, Public Information Office, March 1946. Oblong 8° (175 x 240mm). 20 (of 23) original photographs (ea. 114 x 173mm) showing members of the Committee, important witnesses, landscapes and images of Arabs and Jewish settlements. (First two leaves detached, lacking three photographs with light removal marks.) Original publishers blue cloth with gilt title on upper cover (extremities faintly rubbed).
SCARCE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM COMMEMORATING THE TOURS OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY. The assassination of Lord Moyne, British minister of state in the Middle East, in Cairo in 1944 by Lehi (Stern Gang), effectively meant the abandonment of Churchill's plans for partition, and the 1939 White Paper - detested by the Jews with its restrictions on immigration - remained in force. Although the British Labour party had promised before its election to allow mass Jewish migration into Palestine, once in office in 1945 they prevaricated while they tried to create a new policy for Palestine. The Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, actively tried to get the Americans on board, and established the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry (AAC). It was composed of 6 American and 6 British members, and toured widely to gauge the views of many different parties. The itinerary included: hearing official government policies in Washington, D.C., and London; Vienna, where they visited a Displaced Persons camp and interviewed Holocaust survivors; Cairo, where they heard Arab sentiments and interviewed the Grand Mufti (pictured in this album); 3 weeks in Palestine, with visits to Jewish and Arab areas, and testimonial hearings with Jewish, Arab, and British officials; finally retiring to Lausanne to debate and draft their findings. The images in the present lot are high quality, and Richard Crossman, Chaim Weizmann and Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, are all easily identifiable.
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